Quarto. In two volumes. With an engraved title page to each volume and a further 30 of 32 plates. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplates of John Trotter, Royal Artillery to both FEPs, naive clear tape repair of head of leaf 4Z2 of Vol. I, small marginal hole to leaf 5N2, loss to lower corner of leaf 6M1, with slight loss of sense, slight marginal loss to leaf 7S1, small central hole to leaf 10Q1, naive marginal paper repairs to initial two leaves of Vol. II, second leaf misbound, closed tear to leaf 12E2, loss to lower corner of leaf 12S1, marginal clear tape repairs to leaves 13G1-2, 13H2, loss to lower corner of 14C1, 15Q2, and 16Y2.

A handsomely bound - albeit slightly defective - early nineteenth century provincially published illustrated Bible with explanatory notes by Brightonian Church of England clergyman John Styles (1782-1849).